Word: constant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After President Conant's talk, President William Mather Lewis, of Lafayette College, attacked the philosophy of constant speed in educational method. Attributing emotional instability of youth to attempts of educators to dispense with purely cultural instruction in secondary schools, he advocated courses in music, art, and physical education...
...married a Chilean, "Gabriella, the daughter of Don Francisco Jose de la Balmondiere," took her on a honeymoon, part of which was a trip by wagon and horseback from San Antonio, Tex. to Mexico City. In 1879 this journey took 50 days and the travelers were in constant danger of Indian attacks. Cunninghame Graham taught fencing in Mexico City, returned to the cattle business in South America, learned when his father died in 1884 that debts on the estate amounted to more than ?100,000. It took him ten years to pay everything...
...customary to judge the success of a season by the actual record, that of the team of 1936 does not tell the whole story. An uphill struggle from the time it was announced that certain key players would not be eligible this fall; the constant work on the fundamentals of blocking and tackling; and speed and timing, which resulted in long touchdown marches in the Princeton, Navy, and Yale games; and especially the development of team morale and fighting spirit--these are the factors which do not appeal in the record, but which made the season of Captain Gaffney...
...Gladys Luckenbach; from her third husband, Lewis Luckenbach, onetime vice president of Luckenbach Steamship Co.: a suit for separate maintenance; in San Francisco. Grounds: cruelty, constant drunkenness. According to friends' testimony, Shipper Luckenbach drank only moderately, "about 15 cocktails daily...
...that they are a good team. It is a highly-recommended picture. The action revolves about two star reporters trying to scoop each other. Paramount drags in the stock Hollywood conception of a newspaper: there is the hard-boiled city editor, played by George Bancroft and there is the constant occurrence of three alarm fires and murders attended by cynical, wise-cracking reporters. What distinguishes the movie is the sure, smart acting of Bennett and Grant...